Word: fall
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Surely 1918, which has shown itself so unified before, will not fall now. That one event which is peculiarly of the class must be successful. It must set a standard for youthful 1919 and 1920, and dim, unborn classes to follow...
...football on a large scale East and West next season. It is said that certain major league magnates are considering a plan to employ their ball parks for football and to back the game financially, Professional football was played on Navin Field--the American Association grounds--in Detroit, last fall, and an agent of the Club is reported to have been in Chicago recently to enlist support for his undertaking from owners of major league clubs there. From Columbus and Indianapolis come reports of the impending formation of a professional football league composed of teams representing these cities; Akron, Canton...
...Spoladic reports last fall from Ohio--where commercialized football has taken deep root--gave hint of what might happen with the professional system flourishing on a large scale. Collegians, still in college, but having completed their three years in football, played under assumed names, and the fame of certain gridiron heroes was exploited with nothing but gate receipts in mind. One of the leading conference coaches recently expressed to me his theory that Wisconsin's chances had been injured by the fact of some of Withington's assistants running off each Saturday evening to play Sunday football with professional teams...
...second set of performances in the Agassiz House Theatre on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 o'clock. The play was originally written in Danish and its translation by Henninge K. Schanche was published in a single volume with another of his more recent plays, "Hraun Farm," this fall by the American-Scandinavian Foundation of America...
Cushing and Worn, two of last year's university crew, have not yet come out, but are expected to report after the beginning of the second term next month. The same is true of Lund, a university oarsman of two years ago, who did not complete the season last fall...